The Accident

As dawn approaches, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets about her own past. Soon the book, The Accident, will begin its dangerous march toward publication, toward saving or ruining careers and companies, threatening empires and lives. Over the course of one long, desperate day, the manuscript will be pursued by Isabel’s eager assistant waiting for her big break, and an ambitious rights director searching for her golden parachute; by a larger-than-life film producer in L.A., and a struggling, conflicted publisher in New York; by a veteran editor, Isabel’s oldest friend, whose long-simmering affections for her might save her life; and by a wily CIA operative in Copenhagen, determined that this sweeping story be buried—right alongside the redemption-seeking author himself, hidden in a shadowy expat life in Zurich, protecting an intricate web of new truths and old lies, and the shocking reality of the accident itself. Once again, Chris Pavone has crafted a masterful thriller: gripping, sophisticated, layered, and impossible to put down.